OK, so I figured I would share the prices of the swap, so if anybody wanted to ask questions or do it, they could just let me know. I'll try to give websites where I got or did the stuff as well. Right now we're figuring with this swap we're going to get a mid/high 11's car out of this with a little more than stock motor and a 4l80 trans.

Guages for speedo and Tach from summit--300 (depends on which ones you buy though.)

Thats what I can think of right now, about 5500 bucks total, yes somet things on there are "extras" and you could probably take about 1k off that price tag w/o headers and cam and ministarter. The reason I didn't use the Motor Mounts/crossmember from BRP in the end was that it sat a little too high for comfort with the truck intake I used. The Jeep steering shaft was used to help clear the headers.

If you want to do the swap and save money, try getting an ls1, this way you can cut back on the front end acesories but you'll have to get a different pan or you can get teh 5.3 or 4.8 and still have fuel injection. The wiring harness, I would have just bought one from GM, even though its 1k, its a much easier plug in. The swap isn't bad though, once you do it, you realize that its not as bad as everybody makes it sound, specially when you look at it. I went through emissions yesterday, and was only 1/5 of what i was alotted, passed wtih FLYING colors!!!! I have 4.11 gears in the monte, drove around town and highway, got 23/25 mpg...and its more streetable than my last combo.

The only reason I changed it was because the top was hitting them, they were a great fit, but they rubbed, so I changed out, because I was goign to anyway. I still had to put a tiny ding in them, but that was about it. I guess with the different mounts, everything lined up a bit different you know?

No sir, I only used the two O2 sensors that sit in the collectors of the exhaust and bought two 3" magnaflow race style cats. The exhaust is a true dual setup with flowmaster 40 series mufflers, 2 1/2" al teh way except the cats. Like I said, killed emissions, did almost as good as the wifes 05 acura TL which is an ultra low emissions vehicle.

Buick runner, really, the question becomes how do they know? I mean you can do it and keep the emissions stuff, put headers on that keep the other stuff you need and when you have the wiring harness reworked, make sure to keep all the emissions stuff.

Pacesetters I've heard will work, but with some beating and banging, again on a budget though, theres alot you can do to save yourself some money here and there...will get pics today hopefully shortly, will probably post them here and the "my ss" portion

There are two ways they can find out, in my state a inspector can pop your hood on a whim, another thing they do here sometimes are spot roadside inspections to make sure people don't remove stuff in-between inspections. So far I have not seen a LSX swap where they kept all of the emission systems which probably varies with the model of the donor car. It's nice to see a price list for the needed parts for this swap.

I thought about keeping them al, it wouldn't have been much work just telling jesse at wait4meperformance.com that I wanted all of it with the wiring harness. The only thing I can think of needing to be removed from any wiring harness is the VATS (Vehicle AntiTheft System) besides that its up to you what you want to run.

On a side note, what if you ran the new engine with a carb? How would they test that? Just thinking out loud now though

I cant wait to see pics! I feel like an idiot now, Just put in my lt1 t56 and all of this money into building my roller 383, i should have gone lsx!!!!!!! dangit!!! Once again, i cant wait to see pics!! who knows, in a year or two my drive train may be coming out for a 6.0 build and an ls1 t56.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. Which TransDapt mounts did you use, the 4572 / 4592 (stock location) or 4575 / 4595 (1" offset)? Did the Summit crossmember mount in the stock location?Thanks,Larry.

Couple of questions if you don't mind. Which TransDapt mounts did you use, the 4572 / 4592 (stock location) or 4575 / 4595 (1" offset)? Did the Summit crossmember mount in the stock location?Thanks,Larry.

lol, the answers, the 1" offset ones are the ones I used. The trans dapt transmission crossmember is a build it yourself type. I ended up using my 200r4 crossmember from iceman, it works for now, but I'm getting him to build me a 4l80e crossmember.